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Three hundred convicts have now been deported under the new regime, with a further 500 in the pipeline.

Immigration minister James Brokenshire said: ‘Foreign nationals who abuse our hospitality by committing crime in Britain should be in no doubt of our determination to deport them.

‘The countless appeals and re-appeals lodged by criminals attempting to cheat the system cost us all money and are an affront to British justice. Non-suspensive appeals are allowing us to kick out foreign criminals more quickly and more efficiently than ever before and I want to see them used as often as possible.’

Immigration minister James Brokenshire says foreign national who commit crimes in Britain should be deported

Until last year, foreign criminals could not be put on a plane until the last of their appeals – which could include applications to an immigration tribunal, the Appeal Court and the Supreme Court – had ended.

In exasperation, Mrs May changed the rules in cases where the foreign criminal would not be put in grave danger by appealing from overseas.